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EugenPetrascu
Born to be free since 1993. Link to my first novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B57RMTLB/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3G2ZF9SBU4S7I&keywords=The+Fluid+Mir
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The moment everything changed
Prose or poetry
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I felt everthing changed for me in 2015, when I had a very severe depression, and I have hit the rock bottom, as they say. My worldview shifted; to be honest though, I just had the courage to make a leap towards what my experience has led me and embraced my contradictory nature. It is curious how often the inner events shape us more than the tragedies of our lives, which is the case for me, anyway; the worst moments are the one when suffering arises in you like a gigantic monster surfacing from the bottom of the ocean, a demon whose presence was always unsuspected and repressed.

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Challenge of the Month XXXIX
Write a short poem about your own private Hell. The tortured who reigns gets 100 big ones. Winner will be picked by Prose. Go.
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A hellish descent

I walk upon the surface of a giant frozen lake,

I know it is dangerous to do so but I persist;

What gives me confidence is all that is not fake,

That is why I continue as the light dissipates the mist.

Captivated by the parts where the ice is about to crack,

I am driven there hypnotically, headlong;

I feel in my gut there is no coming back,

Although I am unspeakably strong.

The fall is steep, daunting and welcoming,

And I enter a tunnel full of fire and ice,

Uncertainty and contradictory desires. The spring,

I realize, is painful and will never suffice,

Unless I decompose everything and create a flowing dice.

Challenge
Are You Happy?
Take this in any direction you want.
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Catching the wind

I am happy when I am not conscious about it. As soon as I rationalize it, it fades away because it cannot bare the prison of words.

Challenge
share it!
What is some of the best writing advice you have ever received? It can be from you or from anyone else. Any genre, but special consideration for brainstorming tips. :)
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EugenPetrascu in Nonfiction

To me from me

I have never been a fan of advices, though I have found some and they often are contradictory. I believe that is fundamental to listen to your inner voice, which is hindred by your overreactive mind.

So my advice would be to be couragoeus and just do something, try, experiment, which is a very difficult endeavour facilitated by turning off the critical thinking, at least whilst in the middle of writing, as opposed to outlininig, and focusing on the moment. It also helps to remember that you enjoy what you are doing and play the game for the sake of the game, so to speak, without goals and expectations. All of which is more easily said that done, no doubts about it.

Challenge
What's Holding You Back?
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard. Any format.
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The mirror

I think overthinking is holding back most of us. Then there is the opinion of others, which is easier to ignore.

Challenge
Tell me what you think is the hardest thing about life.
Is it heartbreak? Is it pain? Is it technology? Tell me! :) Write in any format.
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The wheel

The hardest thing about life is the fact that we become attached very easily to our states of comfort, from which we are afraid to fall, thus we suffer a great deal, unable to accept the incessant change of life.

Challenge
kaleidoscope
Your interpretation…poetry only.
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EugenPetrascu in Poetry & Free Verse

Alien and reversed kaleidoscope

I used to think that I am the controller of my destiny and my musings,

And that I am the observant who choses to watch all the reverberant images;

But I feel as I am a terrain which is periodically attacked by savages,

And my eyes are used to give birth to new worlds and flesh-like paintings.

Challenge
Broken
Your interpretation/your format.
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EugenPetrascu in Stream of Consciousness

Shattered wings

It is complicated to talk about such things, for you always have the sensation that you are following cliches, and you usually do. I believe we suffer because we have some thinking patterns which we use to adjust and make sense out of the reality, and we suffer when they do not serve their purpose very well and lack exactitude.

Our ego is also a construction, as weird as that sounds, and it takes a lot of awareness not to let it control you and cause distress, which sounds more easy than it is. Yet I am convinced that whenever we experience deep suffering, we have to turn our attention within again and find the answer, and also view it as a symptom that our life needs some balance and some changes, and that it is overall beneficial but not bad.

Challenge
In 15 words, vividly describe a moment of bizarre, disturbing or worrisome behavior you regularly find yourself exhibiting.
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, compulsion, addiction... anything goes.
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Anxiety

I feel like the vacuum inside me opens up and is about to grab my future in its clutches.

Challenge
Discuss the motivation and psychological character of meteors, meteorites, asteroids, comets, or any other celestial body you can think of.
what do they think about?what choices did they make? why? how do they take influance from others? do they face moral dilemma? write anything you want , just make it in a human language please.
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Maya

We move in a predetermined way, like a clockwork. Our motivations are limited by what you, humans, attributer to us; but what if I told you that we are not as different as you like to think and our existence is correlated? After all, the universe is inside you.

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